Table of Contents
List of Documents xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction: Essential Catholic Social Thought xvii
Official Catholic Social Thought in This Book xvii
An Overview of the Book xix
Some Thoughts Before You Begin xxi
1 The Catholic Social Tradition 1
Official Catholic Social Teaching 1
Why Are There So Many Documents? 3
Catholic Social Teaching: The Principles 4
The Problem with Principles Alone 8
Studying Catholic Social Thought 9
The Catholic Social Tradition, Broadly Understood 15
Social Catholicism 23
Conclusion 26
Some Questions for Consideration 28
2 Persons and the Common Good 29
What Holds This All Together? 29
What Does This Mean for You? 37
The Vocation of Social Catholicism 40
If You Were a Slave, Would You Be against Slavery? 48
Living the Call in Community 49
Conclusion 52
Some Questions for Consideration 54
3 About New Things 55
Thomas Aquinas: A Foundation of Catholic Social Thought 55
Rerum novarum 70
Justice and Rerum novarum 83
Quadragesima anno 84
Catholic Social Thought in America 90
Conclusion 95
Some Questions for Consideration 96
4 Personalism and Human Rights 98
The Personalist Philosophy of Jacques Maritain 98
The United Nations 101
Catholic and American 103
John Courtney Murray 107
The Writings of Pope John XXIII 113
Pacem in terris 115
Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin: Personalism in Practice 127
The Aims and Means of the Catholic Worker 131
Conclusion 134
Some Questions for Consideration 134
5 Christ's Love impels Us 136
The Church in the World 139
Freedom, Conscience, and Truth 151
Integral Human Development 158
Conclusion 168
Some Questions for Consideration 169
6 Liberation 170
A Call to Action 170
The Moral Voice from Latin America 176
The Blood of the Martyrs 187
Justice in the World 195
Evangelization and Justice 202
Conclusion 205
Some Questions for Consideration 206
7 The Work of Solidarity 208
On Human Work 211
Solidarity and the Structures of Sin 224
Migration/Immigration in Catholic Thought 236
Conclusion 239
Some Questions for Consideration 239
8 One Hundred Years Later 241
The Moral Appraisal of Capitalism 241
Racism and Catholic Moral Thought 257
Capital Punishment and Catholic Moral Thought 267
The Consistent Ethic of Life 269
Conclusion 271
Some Questions for Consideration 272
9 Blessed Are the Peacemakers 273
Love is the Only Real Hope yet Deadly Force Is Sometimes Justified 274
The Just-War Theory 281
Peacemaking and Peacebuilding 287
Pope Francis and People Building 293
Conclusion 298
Some Questions for Consideration 300
10 A Catholic Environmental Ethic 301
Creation Proclaims the Glory of God 302
No Ecology without Anthropology 303
Creation Is from God and Speaks to Us of God 307
Our Common Home 309
Conclusion 325
Some Questions for Consideration 326
11 Misericordia 327
God Is Love 328
Love Is the Heart of the Catholic Social Tradition 338
The Special Place of the Poor 350
Conclusion 358
Some Questions for Consideration 358
Conclusion: All for the Common Good 359
Index 362
